2023 ∴ Year Of The Chaoyote ∴ HAUNTLETTER 002
2023 ∴ Year Of The Chaoyote ∴ HAUNTLETTER 002
The Bardo-Bungling Bustle of 2022 ∴ The Coy Chaote Cackle of 2023
Here comes the warm blood, comical not calloused, simmering sweetly in the ruins of yesteryear…
2022 was a prism of contradiction - quite literally, as it was the birth of my Haunt Manual multi-media grimoire that aims to commune with the contradiction rampant through my isms. For that, I am forever grateful to find an avenue that toils in every artistic medium whilst being in congress with trauma, guilt, lost projects and forgotten inspirations.
The year birthed a ThreeSeen (∴), three avenues that I am still conversing and white-knuckle peeking with creative gusto. One is the artistic self, forever burdened with bright-eyed wonderment and neurotic winging, another is the bounty of relationships that buoy me into accountability and selflessness, and the third is a new career trajectory - finally the financial and health insurance brain-scream is hushed enough to allow the other two to dance boldly.
The ThirdScene (∴) will be 2023 itself, the third mind between all three, no matter how contradictory or embattled they may seem, there is an avenue to tend and saunter through all of them. 223 is my magickal number, my and artist Kazmir Malevich’s birthday (as mentioned in the first chapter of Neither Either Or) and my cosmic trigger that disrupts and creates the simple synchronous into complex outsider rhythms. I’m looking at you, “angel numbers.”
So much more can be said about my whims and wants for cosmic currency paid or indebted in 2023. And I absolutely will as I continue the Haunt Manual & HauntLetters, Pragmagick, We The Hallowed, Dakota Slim, Dim Sessions, Ectogasm, yadda yadda…
∴ ECTOGASM ∴
Through the sinew of 22-23, I created and casted “ASPECTRE” under the moniker ECTOGASM. The music was recorded and performed as a livestreamed audiomancy ritual for my Hauntomancy workings (as explored in my Haunt Manual). I decided to clean it up and create an unrealized filmscore; I named the tracks utilizing various cut-ups of my literary works and ideas. The album is on bandcamp and will have a major release on all streaming platforms this month.
∴ PRAGMAGICK ∴
The PRAGMAGICK “podcast” first started as a live talk-show performed at a series of We The Hallowed salons (variety show events consisting of music, lectures, live art, etc.,) I hosted in Portland around 2017-2018. Its transmutation through bright sputters and spurts burned and birthed so many other affirming, if not sometimes meandering, art and magick over the years. But for some odd reason, it was 2022 that it finally transcended convention and became the personal egregore and multimedia grimoire it was intended to be.
I never think of myself as a podcaster per say, and holy hell, I still don't. To be Francis, I don’t believe listeners regard me as one n/either.
The project has become a lucky-if-more-than once-a-month affair; the resonant output that was once greased with experimental fervency became a solemn spurt amongst my many projects. Since the ol’ gab-and-dally of interview based broadcasting it has morphed into hosting true audiomantic experimentation of Haunt∴Manual audio chapters (sonic radio plays and literary based dramas) and Audiomantic Dim Sessions (live sonic documentation of improvised sound magick). This was always the intention, you see, finding a trajectory that helped mold my living folklore was the key. And sometimes you don’t really need to gab about much, and you just need to do. And that was PRAGMAGICK in 2022.
I resolved the interviews and podcasting normatives to the liminalstreams hosted on the PRAGMAGICK YouTube channel, casual video livestreams and unfettered goof-gab that were meant to be combustible - and combustability is something I am always refining - what, when and where to detonate these barking demons!?
It’s an on-going struggle compartmentalizing these constructs within the many mediums I dance in, but I feel allowing freeform livestream should largely stay just that. To me, there is a supremacy with audio as opposed to video interviews - an allowance of senses to wander and synapse.
I never have thought of myself as a podcaster per say, and holy hell, I still don't. To be Francis, I don’t believe listeners regard me as one n/either.
That said, I have over 13 albums of original music written and performed by me and I still don't consider myself a musician, n/either. Perhaps this classification is a pitfall in the calibration of a listener/viewer, an annoying nebula of “What even is this?” And I have made peace with that.
Someone dear once said I should pick a lane or else everything would move slow and too inconsistent to make waves. I still stand by my response, "No, I moved to attempt it all." And have itched closer to what-the-fuck-even-is actualization this way ever since/sense.
Fellow podcasters often joke that I am pretty inconsistent - remarking that its some fairweather appendage with a phantom ache seldomly rubbed...
My consistency is being consistently emboldened to make an ass out of myself in most creative mediums, and inconsistently on anyone else's release schedule (aside from paid jobs which is a different compartmentalization and one that is still a damn struggle!)
So the audio podcast became a SoothSinger current for audio-escapades, the youtube a dance among videomancy and the casual combustible, and everything else lays in words or song. I’m finding the compartmentalization of magickal currents within certain artistic mediums is key. A cacophonous CurrenTethered circus!
I closed out 2022 with the 77th episode of PRAGMAGICK - the full Dim Session Audiomancy Ritual that scored the Sine Wave Serpents Haunt Manual chapter. And this week, I just released my 78th episode of an end-of-the-year howl-into-the-new-year chat with dear friends Luxa Strata, Sam Shadow & JJ Reine De Blanc. A casual combustible chat that transcended into the audio-escapade.
NOTE: The Audio podcast is different from the liminalstream below. It has been edited (a smidge) with an introduction and musical numbers.
This wonderful chat with Luxa Strata of The Lux Occult Podcast, Sam Shadow of ShadowZone Productions and J.J. Reine De Blanc was casted live late into the night on December 29th, 2022.
“We dipped into the raditudes of the multitudes of magnanimous creative works and personal transformation while coyote-cackling about the missives, the mopes and the mal.
I Have taken the time to meticulously hyperlink every project mentioned by any of us that was created in 2022. Every thing we chat about should be listed, in the order they were mentioned, in the shownotes below. I urge everyone to bask in the symphonic detritus of artistic dead skin as we glisten in the moon of new projects!”
Jumping from combustible to audio-finite allowed me to index most of the works we discussed in the podcast within the show’s notes. And it dawned on me, this loose-lip ear-salon medium can be jumped yet agan, here on substack, but it would glisten in 2022’s most personal arts and magicks casted…
2023 is the Year of the Coyote, of the Chaote, and of the trickster creative abandon charged and haunted within us.
Below I have composed 2022’s most resonate works I created with. They are organized as follows:
∴ New Albums
∴ We The Hallowed (The Art/Magick Collective I Revelate)
∴ Literature & AudioChapters
∴ Dim Sessions (Live Improvised Audiomancy Rituals)
∴ PRAGMAGICK Interviews
∴ LiminalStreams (Live Streamed Solo Shows)
∴ As Contributor
NEW ALBUMS ∴
∴ ECTOGASM “ASPECTRE” (Bandcamp):
∴ DAKOTA SLIM “BARDOS” (On All Streaming):
WE THE HALLOWED ∴ Magickal Art Collective
∴ The We The Hallowed HAUNTQUINOX ’22 hosted by Keats Ross:
∴ We The Hallowed “Detrit∴Us” Video Sigil Conceived, Edited & Produced by Keats Ross:
LITERATURE & AUDIO CHAPTERS
∴ Haunt Manual Literature (Substack)
Introduction: Neither Either Or
Ch. 1: Sine Wave Serpents
Ch. 2: Prisms Tethers Talismans
Ch. 3: Disolver Eco Resonar
Ch. 4: Spectre Aspectre Prospectre
∴ “Neither Either OR”
Haunt Manual Audio Chapter 1 (Plus Panel Discussion)
∴ “Sine Wave Serpents”
Haunt Manual AudioChapter 2
DIM SESSIONS ∴ Audiomancy
∴ DIM SESSION 001 “Neither/Either/OR”
∴ DIM SESSION 002 “SINE WAVE SERPENTS”
∴ DIM SESSION 003 “ASPECTRE”
INTERVIEWS
∴ “Up The Pisces Punx” with Anthony Tyler
∴ “Anarchic Audiomancy” with Tom Whiston
∴ “Deserter Psalms” with Logan Ford (Discussing The Taos Dream)
∴ “Audiomancy & The Psychonaut” with Thad McKraken
∴ “Talismancy” with JJ of Reine De Blanc
∴ “Ghost Gematria” with Bobby Hale of Temple of Babalon Choronzon
LIMINALSTREAMS
∴ EX-HEX & VEX
∴ Altar & Dimming Room Tour
∴ 2.23 Birthday Goofjuice
AS CONTRIBUTOR
∴ “Fuck Around And Find Out” Zine from The Green Mushroom Project (Feat. Luxa, Keats, Sam & More):
BHA23: Ghostbusting The Psyche (Feat. Keats Ross Of PragMagick)
∴ Keats & Dakota Slim’s “Wylin'” on Argentina’s Rock-Show Full Episode:
https://boyjah.net/RockShowRadio/BoyJahBlock-2022-12-03.m4a
I’m probably forgetting so many things, but you’re already bored… I can tell.
I want to give a big thanks to Eric J. Millar for his invaluable partnership in weathering the proud tides of human error. And of course, all the amazing patrons that have stayed with me as I swayed these past couple of months. Thank you Michelle Embree, Temple of Babalon Choronzon, JJ Reine De Blanc, Brittany Brown, Bibi, CW Chanter, Jonicide, Jilly Beans, Michelle Embree, Corrie Anne, Spooky, Derek Hunter, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, Carl Abrahammson, Tony Davis, Vanessa Kindell and Arnemancy for your ongoing support.
2023 is the Year of the Coyote, of the Chaote, and of the trickster creative abandon charged and haunted within us.
Haunt On!
Keats Ross ∴ Friday the 13th, 2023
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